Taxidermy Badger Cubs
Log #5972
Latin: Meles meles
Size: approx. 81.5cm x 61.5cm x 27cm
Description: Pair of Badger cubs by Hutchings of Aberystwyth in typical ebonised case with gold beading. Case of three sided glass construction with naturalistic setting, one cub looking down from modelled rock work. Residing in the Half-moon hotel, Pontlash from the 1890's until 1982, this was then purchased from the "Davies" family from which it was originally owned.
The family business of J. Hutchings of Aberystwyth was one of the most prolific of all taxidermy firms with an immediately recognisable and unique style of their own. The firm was founded in the 1860s at 7, King Street. James Hutchings had three sons, George, Walter and James Frederick. Fred Hutchings went to work at the famous and distinguished E.F.Spicer's in Birmingham, and was reputedly their foreman in 1889 when only nineteen years old.